Some pretty big news was announced today — I'm gonna direct a movie I wrote!  It may be the biggest announcement of my life and I'm super excited about it. :oD

I wanted to take a minute and discuss what this news means for us at hitRECord.  This feature project is going to be a traditionally produced film.  One day I aspire to do an entire feature film using hitRECord.org's open-collaborative creative process.  However, I think it is  important to have experience directing a feature in the traditional way.  I do hope the hitRECord.org community will be involved in this project some how, in various ways — and, I'll discuss that soon when the time comes...

But, what does this mean for hitRECord while I'm directing this feature?  Well, we've been planning for this internally for quite a while.  hitRECord has grown a lot as a production company.  And we've outgrown the infrastructure we built two years ago for hitRECord to operate with.  We've proven ourselves — creatively and businesss-wise.  So, IT IS TIME TO EXPAND!  Wheras it has been a mostly full-time job for our team, it'll now be a very full-time full time job for our team.  I'm going to be hiring more people (we're job creators!) and I think we're going to be able to operate more efficiently.  

In the past, hitRECord has had more opportunity than we've been capable of taking on - and that's a good thing.  It's time to expand to help realize our full potential.  We've been planning hitRECord's growth for a while now to coincide with my feature film project.  What we're doing here at hitRECord won't falter, it will accelerate.  In the coming weeks, we'll get into the specifics about how everything will work.  I can't wait to share some of this stuff with you.  

I was telling Jared yesterday that the work we've been doing here at hitRECord — the constant collaboration and creative output — makes me feel like I'm trained and ready for the marathon that is directing a feature film.  Thank you for that.

And, thanks again.

The best is yet to come...

<3

J

A quick idea pieced together on the spur of the moment...

Sel's "Cinnamon" has to be my favourite piece of writing on the website. It works both as a song and as a spoken piece, and I thought it might be interesting to mix it together with The Automator mix..

It's an idea, and I know the mix isn't quiiite right..but maybe someone can build on this?

When I played it to thesherbethead he said it would sound better if Morgan Freeman or Dennis Hopper read it..so if anyone wants to step up to the plate, feel free! This is more to get people thinking about a possible remix option..

Calling all Writers, Visual Artists and Conceptual Artists! Let's get back into one of our most popular (and one of my personal favorites) collaborations, Shadow Beings! 

This collaboration was originally created by recorders Atilee and Soupy and has resulted in many great incarnations, including a full illustration and introduction in RECollection Volume 1. 

There is a whole world and plenty of imagery and characters already developed and I feel that we can really expand upon it into a series of sorts.  Possibly a bunch of 2 to 5 minute episodes.  It can be graphic novels, short films or animations - whatever you feel can tell a great story describing this fantastic world. You can use the characters that have already been created or develop new ones of you own.

So - let's see where we all can take it!

Thanks Again, 

<3

J

Available in the Record Store

This is one of the RE: INDEPENDENCE shorts that we played at our show at Sundance 2012